The postcolonial African state and development geography

Abstract

One of several important changes that have taken place in Anglo-American human geography over the last two decades is the development of a radical political geography (Clark & Dear 1984, Harvey 1985, Johnston 1986, 1989, Short 1989, Taylor 1993a, b). This ‘new’ political geography has been largely confined to analyses of the role of the state in capitalist societies (Driver 1991). Although it has become common within development studies to recognise the centrality of the postcolonial state in generating and regulating economic and social processes, human geographers have paid little attention to the characteristics of postcolonial politics (some exceptions are: Blaut 1987, Corbridge 1988, Samatar 1989, Samatar & Samatar 1987, Slater 1989a, b. Watts 1984, 1987, Watts & Bassett 1985). This calls for some brief comments on radical political geography and those fields of development geography most likely to be concerned with postcolonial politics.

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